swap_horiz Hayabusa2 Alternatives

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OSIRIS-REx (Bennu Sample Return)

Launched in 2016, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu to collect material for lab...

2023 Nasa Asteroid Earth Return

9.66 Brilliant

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Voyager 2

Voyager 2 is a NASA-built spacecraft deployed in 1977. It’s notable for being the first to explore Uranus and Neptune pr...

Active Nasa Interstellar Outer Planets

9.15 Excellent

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Voyager 1

Voyager 1 is an active NASA spacecraft launched in 1977. It undertook a flyby mission to Jupiter and Saturn. The probe a...

Active Nasa Interstellar Outer Planets

9.13 Excellent

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New Horizons

The New Horizons mission is an active NASA space probe studying the outer solar system. Launched in 2006, it achieved a...

Active Nasa Kuiper Belt Pluto

8.68 Great

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Curiosity Mars Rover

The Curiosity rover is an active NASA mission exploring Mars from Gale Crater. Launched in 2011, it investigates the pla...

Geology Active Nasa Mars

8.59 Great

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HTV-1 (Kounotori)

HTV-1, also designated Kounotori 1, was the inaugural flight of the H-II Transfer Vehicle, an uncrewed cargo spacecraft...

Cargo 2009 Jaxa H Ii

8.58 Great

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SELENE

The SELENE mission, formerly known as Kaguya, is a Japanese space exploration project operated by JAXA. It deployed an o...

Mapping Lunar Orbiter Jaxa

8.54 Great

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OSIRIS-REx

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft undertook a NASA mission to study the asteroid Bennu. Launched in 2016, it successfully collec...

Nasa Past Asteroid Sample Return

8.51 Great

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Chang'e 6

Chang’e 6 is a Chinese space mission successfully delivering lunar samples from the Moon’s far side in December 2024. Th...

China Past Moon Sample Return

8.50 Great

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Hayabusa

The Hayabusa mission, developed by JAXA, successfully retrieved microscopic samples from the asteroid Itokawa in 2010. T...

Past Asteroid Jaxa Sample Return

8.11 Great

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MMX (Martian Moons eXploration)

The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) is a robotic space mission currently in development by the Japan Aerospace Explorati...

2024 Mars Jaxa Sample Return

7.35 Good

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Akatsuki

Akatsuki, also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter, is a JAXA spacecraft launched in 2010 to study the atmospheric dynami...

Climate Active Venus Orbiter

7.10 Good

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Arase

Arase, formerly known as the Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG), is a Japanese scientific satel...

Active Plasma Earth Jaxa

6.71 Fair

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OSIRIS-APEX

OSIRIS-APEX is NASA's extended mission for the spacecraft that returned a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023 under the O...

Active Nasa Extended Asteroid

6.61 Fair

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EarthCARE

EarthCARE, short for Earth Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer, is a joint Earth-observation mission developed by the...

Active Earth Esa Jaxa

6.58 Fair

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BepiColombo

BepiColombo is a joint European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency mission to study Mercury. Launched o...

Active Mercury Orbiter Esa

6.53 Fair

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Psyche

Psyche is a NASA robotic space mission to the asteroid 16 Psyche. The spacecraft is designed to orbit and study the meta...

Active Nasa Asteroid Orbiter

6.48 Fair

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Hisaki

Hisaki, also designated SPRINT-A, is a Japanese ultraviolet space telescope developed and operated by the Japan Aerospac...

Active Planetary Observatory Ultraviolet

6.35 Fair

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Hera

Hera is a European Space Agency space-safety mission to the binary asteroid system Didymos and Dimorphos. Launched on 7...

Active Binary Asteroid Esa

6.27 Fair

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Tianwen-2

Tianwen-2 is a Chinese planetary exploration mission focused first on near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3, also designated 4692...

China Active Comet Asteroid

6.18 Fair